i’m actually asking two questions: where you picked it up from, and what made you actually choose it.for me, i just picked the masculine version of my birth name (crazy, i know) and doubled down when my mother said it was “a faggy name”.
i didnt and never will likelycouldnt be the feminine version of my birth name anyway because its genuinely hideous, no one is named like that
>>42563239i picked it when i was still a theymab (young and stupid), not really from anywhere specific i just knew it as a gender neutral name. i chose it bc i thought it suited me
i took the name my parents would have given me if i were born female. my ultimately using it was mostly because naming myself just felt somehow really wrong...plusi think i would have forever regretted it, had it been up to me; i like way too many names and would have wanted to be called something else inevitably. but it being my parents' choice obviated that whole problem :) and it really suits me, i think.some of the names i especially like (in order??) are Heather, Holly, Harper (i guess i just like the letter H), June (and other month names, particularly April and May), Paige, Mackenzie, and Jamie. there are probably more but that's all i'm thinking of now
>>42563239I'm happy with my name, I picked it when I was working my hell job and I was sitting behind the building on break.One of the happiest moments of my life
When I was a child there was a beautiful long hair cat named willow across the street that used to lounge in front of a beautiful long hair willow tree and it just felt right
mom said she'd always wanted a baby girl w the name. I wish i couldve told her i wanted to use it. its too distinct to say just imagine smthn that sounds rly southern
>>42563239I asked my mum what I'd have been named if I'd been born a girl and it felt like that was supposed to be my name.
>>42563239i liked how it sounded
>>42563565LURLEEN
My Dad's a big star trek nerd and said he would've tried to sneak it in as the middle name if I was born cis. The name my mom originally chose for me and the names of all my female ancestors are literally Lily, Alice, Rose etc. so this is better. Plus it's not a common cis name so the chances of running into a woman with the same name are near zero.
>>42563446>>42563589>i took the name my parents would have given me if i were born female>I asked my mum what I'd have been named if I'd been born a girli’m happy this method worked out for the both of you girlswhen i asked my mom what name she would’ve given me if i was born male it turned out that she just re-used the name on my younger brother lolbut i think my name fits me better anyway
>>42563498nona this is so beautiful>>42563845>it turned out that she just re-used the name on my younger brother lolmany such cases, apparently. soz anon. but glad you've got a name you like, anyhow :) how did you end up choosing it?
>>42563239Idk I saw it on a list of common names for my birth year and i liked it, ig it felt like it made sense for me. I still repped for 4 years after I picked it tho so it doesn't really matter. It's not my namefag btw
>>42563239i cant explain it, my name just came to me, almost like a divine inspiration
There was this really pretty cis girl that sat next to me in spanish class. She was always really nice to me and I thought her name was pretty. So I took it
>>42564624I'm thinking about the white guy poet who got published in an anthology because he used the name of his female Asian high school classmate and the editors thought it would be good inclusion to have herhttps://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-white-pen-name-20150911-story.html
i still boymode so it doesn’t really matter, but the first name i settled on i just really liked the sound of it, still do but it was an old lady name and kinda cringe because there’s a character in a popular animated show with the same name (im not a fan of the show so don’t know much about about it but i just didn’t wanna be associated with that in the cringe tranny way)my new name i settled on is more normie sounding and less likely to clock me and i quite like it, its basic but i like it. there’s also some games with main characters with the same name so i dont think i can escape being a cringe tranny lol hopefully nobody makes the connection ive also never seen a tranner have the name so thats a plus
>>42564656Lived in a predominantly Hispanic area. We were all spics. That's fucking hilarious though
>>42563239Mine is just the first one I felt okay calling myself but in my head I'm still my birth name. Probably because I never came out at work...
>>42564864Also while hearing my birth name used to give me a lot of issues, now it's not as bad? It's weird. It's like my identity has stabilized as "boy who really wants to be a girl" for the time being. Have D cups tho so uhhhhhh
If my parents had been supportive of me, I would have let them name me, but as they were not, I went through malenames in my family tree and came to the conclusion that the only one I liked that wasn't for first-born sons was Kermit. As I didn't want to deal with being named Kermit, I chose Charles which Kermit is a derivative of. It helped that both Darwin and Professor X are named Charles.When my grandparents found out, they were the only supportive people in my family. My grandfather (born 1919) affectionately called me Charley in a letter he wrote me, and after he died, I switched from using "Charlie" as a nickname to the antiquated version he favored.
>>42563891>how did you end up choosing it?oh i forgot to mention in my other reply but i’m the OP lol
it's the name I used for characters in games and stuff when I was repping
